When I lose my internet connection, I need to water my garden. The minimum run time for my zones in 20 minutes. Currently the unit will only run 3 minutes. It is not practical to go back every 3 minutes and turn on.

I totally understand where you're coming from on this, @NOVUS. Depending on how far a zone is from your controller, three minutes may not be sufficient to even test/troubleshoot a zone - which is a prime use for this manual feature.

I'll point out, though, that Limited Schedules are also a useful option for when your unit is offline. Instructions on using those should have come with your Gen2, but are also available in the following support article: What are Limited Schedules?

Hope that helps, until the changes Ben mentioned (in Post#2) are put into production.